११वा ] आर्यांची सामाजिक रजना व धर्मसंस्था. ४७ र्याधिपत्य, ही ह्या जगाच्या इतिहासांत दुसरीकडे कोठें ही आढळून येते नाहींत. क्षत्रिय वर्ण. याप्रमाणे चिरकाल राहील अशा मजबूत पायावर ब्रा- म्हण वर्णाची संस्थापना व एकीकरण झाल्यानंतर, क्षत्रिय वर्गही हळू हळू पुढे सरसाऊं लागला. कारण, एकामागून एक असे देश जिं कण्याचे काम सतत चालूच होतें; त्यामुळे लढाऊ व परा- क्रमी लोकांची त्यावेळी मोठीच अवश्यकता असे. या १ These same families remained in the possession of the traditions connected with them, and which were necessary to their explaination.
and thus it came about that these families of singers became families of preists, whose influence was more and more consolidated in proportion as the distance between the people and their former home increased, and the more their ancient institutions were banished from their minds by external struggles. The guardians of ancestral customs, of the primitive forms of worship, took an increasingly prominent position, because the representatives of these, and finally, the representatives of the Divine itself. For so ably had they used their opportunities that they succeeded in founding a hierarchy the like of which the world has never seen. History of Indian literature P. 18 ( By Pro. Weber }
